Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies
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I will change the name as soon as possible, if you have any feedback on how to name it next, that would be appreciated.
In high school (so, decades ago), we found the word "tight" as a graffiti piece on the school wall one morning. That was the day I learned it stood for "drunk".
Very, very few Americans would even know any meaning for the word "munt". But if they heard it spoken, especially if in the context of money or the herb (mint), they would assume the speaker said "mint". Also, I don't think it's a bit of a stretch to imagine that munt became mint in England a few hundred years ago...
Some of the people here need to lighten up about names. Perhaps we can start with the assumption that a word isn't being used negatively until it's demonstrated otherwise.
For example, I saw [INSERT NAME HERE] and they were looking like a total Munter. when it is used in a derogatory sense I think it is more often used when talking about [INSERT APPROPRIATE PRONOUN FOR PERSON WITH VAGINA HERE], but as far as I'm aware it can be applied to both/all/neither/X sexes/genders/species.
ETA: This is my second edit because apparently I don't understand how HN works after all this time. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Here is my response again in case you are getting notifications and don't see my edited reply:
"I can't seem to reply to the reply to this reply, but I think when someone takes too many drugs they are classically known as being "Munted"."
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This is going to save me literally seconds over the course of my lifetime, and as one with absolutely no patience with how slow computers are this is the best thing I've learnt this week.
This is also coming across as a really sarcastic reply, but it's really, genuinely not and I am very grateful that you pointed this out. Again, see hugs above.
No, the Oxford dictionary definition for the product's name as cited is correct in the regions it says it is. The existence of other, similar derogatory terms in other regions is secondary, if anything.
You are absolutely correct.
Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourself in the foot.
Hyundai, for example, almost made the mistake of releasing a vehicle named Kona in Portugal.
Kona is a pretty harmless word in most contexts, but "kona" reads exactly like "cona" for a Portuguese speaker, and "cona" is slag for "vagina".
Oops.
They renamed it Kauai for the Portuguese market, IIRC.
Perhaps Minted if you want to keep the name similar?
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How silly those Dutch are for inventing a word before English existed, and then continuing to use it today even when apparently a sliver of the English speakers of the world think it means something bad.
American companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into new markets too.
Reminds me of a colleague who named his new technology "spics" (it easy to pronounce and as an acronym is fitted perfectly)... Only after some weeks he googled it. It's changed now needless to say.
We currently support Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash and Ripple.
Right now we only refund payments that failed for example if the customer pays too much or too little. We do plan to add the functionality to refund payments manually.
Lastly there are no KYC/AML requirements to withdraw in cryptocurrencies.
It’s more caramel-coloured on my device, but I like both
Suggestion: Add credit-card processing. As a developer, I would benefit from being able to implement a single payment integration that let my customers pay how they want to. Credit cards are the obvious biggie, but it would also be huge to be able to e.g. receive European bank transfers as a US-based business. My dream "OmniPay" would also handle PayPal, Venmo, etc. as well, all with one integration.
Much as I'd like to try accepting cryptocurrencies, I'm definitely not going to manage multiple payment processors to add support for what (I would suppose) would be a tiny fraction of my business.
I'd love to integrate with Munt in the future!
Munt is an easy to integrate and user friendly way to start accepting cryptocurrencies in your website. Munt handles things like email receipts and refunds if payments fail or if the customer has paid too much or too little. Munt is also customizable (more options coming soon) to fully represent your brand's look and feel. Have you tried our demo yet? Love to hear your thoughts on it.
However CoinPayments is cheaper (0.5% per transaction), and supports many more coins and features. For example they can easily be set up to collect shipping addresses for me so that I don't have to. They do send a variety of receipt emails as well, but something nicer/customizable would be preferable. I could accomplish all of this using the CoinPayments API rather than the prebuilt buttons, but that would require a lot more work on my end.
I would be willing to move to something with a nicer, more customizable UI if the cost/feature gap was closed. Good luck with this!
Munted: uncontrollably drunk
Munter: extremely unattractive female
In the UK at least, possibly other English-speaking countries.
Usually in a happy way with friends, like “we were munt on the couch together”, but yeah. That’s what it means.
The URL makes this worse. To “get munt”, well. Yep.
Source: native English, now live in Australia.
I'm aware this is probably a niche opinion. But Hayhoe.
The contrast on the signup page is too low - https://getmunt.com/signup - I can't tell what each field is supposed to be.
The white on yellow at the bottom of the sign up, and also on your chat pop-up is also quite low.
Good luck with it - I will potentially switch one of my products over to this on a trial basis.
* The signup was very easy
* 2FA is missing, considering withdrawals will be made through the account if automatic withdrawals are not enabled, that is an absolute must have.
* Clicking on "Upgrade your Plan" takes me back to the logged out site even though I remain logged in
* I uploaded a logo and I am not sure what it is used for, it's not displayed anywhere.
* I signed up in particular because I saw Woocommerce on the front page. Post login there is no mention of it, and I am not sure there is actually a plugin for it.
Keep working at it guys - it's a good segment to be in.
Thanks for the feedback. 2fa is definitely on our agenda to implement in the following weeks, we do check if the device has been verified or not, so if a new device tries to enter your account you need to verify it in your email.
The logo is used on the checkout pages you create, the plugin can be downloaded from the homepage for now.